Today we will communicate that we’ll require our partners and clients to accept a new standard Yahoo! agreement and that Yahoo! (we) currently intends to provide the service FREE of charge to clients and partners who accept the Yahoo! Agreement. It is however important to note that our clients and partners must accept this agreement to continue using the service.

I have no idea what the new agreement includes. Maybe you have to swear never to use another Google product, for "so long as you both shall live?" 😉

Still, it’s exciting to see that we might get another free analytics tool to compete with Google Analytics. I know the purists will scream to keep it a paid service, but I’m a cheapskate, so free works for me!

If you’ve received the new Yahoo agreement, let me know if there’s anything ominous about it. Thanks!

As an avid Indextools user of more than 5 years, I am both excited and saddened by this. Indextools has always been a low-cost alternative to Google Analytics – it’s better than GA and didn’t come with the privacy concerns. Now Index Tools has privacy concerns.

On the one hand, I’m glad I’ll be able to get this kind of reporting for free. On the other hand, now I have to find an alternative for those with privacy concerns. I hate Omniture and Webtrends, plus they are pretty expensive. Anyone have a low-cost alternative I can start trying out?

http://www.xuru.com Jeremy Luebke

@tony

No, there is not other alternative with close to the same features and price. If you must have enterprise level tracking, it’s either go up the chain to omniture or have G/Y know about your private data

The only bright spot is it’s Yahoo. Like they really know what to do with the data. It’s not like it’s Google. 😉

Free works best, period. If you’re trying to gain market penetration and general acceptance of your product or service on the internet, it being free will lead to much wider exposure than one would ever get by trying to charge.

Smart move by Yahoo, am a current Google Analytics user, but will definitely check Yahoo’s offering out

This could probably be an interesting option for people with a previously banned gmail account. If they want to collect adsense, they wouldn’t have to delete the cookies every time they check their mails and then switch accounts to view their stats.